Milestones: Oct. 13, 1961

Born. To Willy Brandt, 47, West Berlin's scrappy mayor, while he was
visiting New York City to receive the annual Freedom House Award, and
his Norwegian wife, the former Rut Hansen, 41: a third son; in Berlin.

Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer
and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head
of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered),
was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own
hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa,...